40 JouKNAL. — MiLRCH. [Part I. 



cember, we have had many very fine and without fire 

 in March. In England, winter really begins in No- 

 vember, and does not end 'till Mid-March. Here we 

 have greater cold; there, four times as much icct. I 

 have had my great coat on only twice, except when 

 sitting in a stage, travelling. I have had gloves on no 

 oftener ; for, 1 do not, like the Clerks of the House of 

 Boroughmongers, ivrite in gloves. I seldom meet a 

 wagoner with gloves or great coat on. It is generally 

 so dry. This is the great friend of man and beast. 

 Last summer I wrote home for nails to nail my shoes 

 for winter. I could find none here. What a foohsh 

 people, not to have shoe-nails ! I forgot, that it was 

 likel}^ that the absence of shoe-nails argued an absence 

 of the want of them. The nails are not come; and I 

 have not wanted them. There is no dirt, except for 

 about ten days at the breaking up of the frost. The 

 dress of a labourer does not cost half so much as in 

 England. This dryness is singularly favourable to all 

 animals. They are hurt far less by dry cold, than by 

 icarm drip, drip, drip, as it is in England. There has 

 been nothing grceji in the garden, that is to say, above 

 ground, since December ; but, Me have had, all win- 

 ter, and have now, ichite cabbages, green savoys, pai's- 

 nips, carrots, beets, young onions, radishes, white 

 turnips, Swedish turnips, and potatoes; and all these in 

 abundance (except radishes, Avhich were a few to try), 

 and always at hand at a minute's warning. The modes 

 of preserving will be given in another part of the work. 

 What can any body want more than these things in the 

 garden way ■? However, it would be very easy to add 

 to the catalogue. Apples, quinces, cherries, currants, 

 peaches, diicd in the Summer, and excellent for tarts 

 and pies. Apples in their raw state, as many as we 

 please. My oAvn stock being gone, I have trucked 

 turnips for apples ; and shall thus have them, if I 

 please, 'till apples come again on the trees. I give 

 two bushels and a half of Swedish turnips for one of 

 apples : and, mind, this is on the last day of March. 

 I have here statedy«cfs, whereby to judge of the winter ; 

 and I leave the English reader to judge for himself, I 

 myself decidedly preferring the American winter. 



